
Date of issue: 11.06.2012
Song language: English
Bjarne Herjúlfsson ca. 985CE |
In 985CE a Norwegian of name Bjarne |
Herjulfsson son’s son of Bard Herjulfsson |
traveled bravely to Greenland from Iceland |
It was custom that Bjarne spend alternate |
winters in each land with his father. |
When arriving in Iceland summer 985 |
he received word that his father had gone to |
west to Greenland… |
Bjarne feels uneasy that neither he nor his |
crew had ever charted these waters. |
After three days and nights, |
a fierce north Atlantic storm |
blows his ship off course in these waters. |
Bjarne and his crew attempted to regain |
their course and after several days they |
encountered a heavily wooded land. |
Knowing this is not Greenland, |
he decides it is best not to go ashore, |
and so they sail away… |
And so they sail away |
onto Greenland they find |
the place that they had long sought |
with memories of a land not forgot |
And into the bay he breathes easily |
as his journey comes to an end |
And when Bjarne Herjulfsson back in |
Iceland sells his ship to Lief Eriksson |
Lief returns onward to this new land |
Fifteen years since the sighting of the |
last man. |
A colony on the eastern |
shores and a memory of a lost long |
course |
Hail, Helluland, Markland, Vinland! |
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